Nigel Farage

Why 2025 could redefine politics

14 December 2024 9:00 am

Santa will have a tricky time this year fulfilling all the Christmas wish lists in Westminster. Keir Starmer is desperately…

Can Labour’s reset see off Reform?

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Arriving on stage to accept ‘Newcomer of the Year’ at The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards, Nigel Farage gave…

Why Reform has Wales in its sights

30 November 2024 9:00 am

A spectre is haunting Wales. Fresh from Reform’s election victories in Westminster, Nigel Farage is turning his attention westwards, to…

Nigel told me he’s the new Boris

16 November 2024 9:00 am

Last week I arrived in London from the Cotswolds just in time to witness the collective meltdown from everyone around…

Nigel’s next target: Reform has Labour in its sights

21 September 2024 9:00 am

At this weekend’s Reform conference in Birmingham, the opening speech will be given by a man who wasn’t even a…

The ‘British Muslim patriot’ on a mission to get Farage into No. 10

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Few people had heard of Zia Yusuf before he spoke at Reform’s final campaign rally in Birmingham. But after a…

Six politicians who shaped modern Britain

31 August 2024 9:00 am

The members of Vernon Bogdanor’s select gathering may not always have succeeded in their aims, but by sticking their heads above the parapet they made the political weather

Why Britain riots

10 August 2024 9:00 am

Riotous summers seem to occur in Britain with about the same frequency as sunny ones: roughly every decade. Sometimes it’s…

Letters: why I’m voting Reform

6 July 2024 9:00 am

Back to 1976? Sir: Your leading article perfectly reflects the public’s attitude to the manifestos of the major parties (‘Challenging…

What’s the worst that can happen for the Tories?

29 June 2024 9:00 am

When Rishi Sunak stunned his cabinet colleagues by calling a snap election, they feared the worst. Fast forward a month…

The problem with flexible working

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Lots and lots and lots of fuss about betting on the general election. Less attention is paid to the biggest…

Milkshake me!

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Nine days of campaigning to go and I haven’t been milkshaked yet. I’ve hung out near McDonald’s in the hope…

How to lose voters

22 June 2024 9:00 am

During the 1983 general election, I campaigned every single day with great zeal and avidity. I knocked on quite literally…

Would you want Nigel Farage to marry your daughter?

22 June 2024 9:00 am

The opposite of attraction is repulsion. Political commentary gives too little attention to a party’s (or leader’s) capacity to repel.…

Reform wants the Tories destroyed

8 June 2024 9:00 am

There was a very excitable young man on Sky News last week, talking about the Sky/YouGov MRP poll which suggested…

The hypocrisy of Nigel Farage’s supporters

12 August 2023 9:00 am

Much heartened by the barrage of criticism I’ve been receiving from both Spectator and Times readers, I’m returning to the…

Grifter

5 August 2023 9:00 am

Coutts has forgotten what the job of a bank is

29 July 2023 9:00 am

We now have a reluctant apology from Dame Alison Rose, followed by her even more reluctant resignation. Her departure is…

PEP

29 July 2023 9:00 am

In defence of Coutts

29 July 2023 9:00 am

Dame Alison Rose should not have resigned as head of NatWest over the Nigel Farage affair – and ministers who…

The liberal case for Nigel Farage

21 July 2023 12:20 am

After ‘it’s not happening’, ‘it may be happening, but for different reasons’, and ‘would it be such a bad thing…

How my brother-in-law Boris got me cancelled

8 July 2023 9:00 am

How Boris made me a threat to Mexico

From Neil to Nigel: the descent of GB News

14 September 2021 10:07 pm

I can’t claim to know any behind-the-scenes rivalries or boardroom brouhaha motivating Andrew Neil’s departure from GB News but I…